Monday, March 12, 2012

How to Relieve Anxiety: Aromatherapy and Natural Cures to Alleviate Worries

Anxiety and worry are characterized by endlessly turning over some issue in your mind, constantly thinking about it, brooding and not letting that thought go away. One can cope with anxiety using aromatherapy and medication. Here are some facts about how to reduce anxiety using aroma oils and natural therapies

Anxiety and Health: Is Excessive Worrying Bad?

Being worried and anxious is counter-productive, given that, you are unable to make logical judgments and decisions about dealing with the problem in the most appropriate way.

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Anxiety and Anguish can affect your health

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Our nervous system is highly complex and it functions as the body’s communication network and control center. The nervous system senses changes in the environment and within the body, assesses these changes and then initiates an action.

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Ensuring that you get help for anxiety and worry is very essential, to prevent the condition from escalating in to something worse. Anxiety and worry is associated with a host of symptoms, which can be detrimental to the overall health. Worry and anguish has a tendency to snowball and aggravate and affect the whole body, triggering a whole range of psycho-somatic diseases such as hypertension, angina, and heart attack.

How to Use Aromatherapy to Treat Anxiety and Alleviate Worries

Aromatherapy has a powerful effect on the nervous system; it helps reduce anxiety and fretfulness and promotes feelings of calm, relaxation and overall well being. Certain essential oils are nervine, i.e., they act as a tonic for the nerves and have a strengthening effect on the nervous system.

There are a host of essential oils that are invaluable when it comes to banishing worry and apprehension. The following oils have been proved to be unquestionably beneficial in the effective management of anxiety:

Frankincense: Frankincense helps break links with the past and thereby helps you to stop brooding and move on. It stills the mind and checks it from dwelling on past misfortunes and troubles. It slows down your respiratory rate and helps you to breathe easily and deeply, thus allaying anxiety, angst and fear appreciably. It is a calming and uplifting essential oil which also helps keep anger in control

Melissa: Melissa is deeply calming; it inspires love and joy. It is considered one of the best oils for shock, worry, anxiety and apprehension. It gladdens the spirit and drives away dark, destructive thoughts.

Marjoram: Marjoram is called ‘the great comforter’; it helps with pain at all levels. The oil is comforting and warming and very helpful for grief, irritability and worry, giving solace to the emotions. Marjoram consoles those who are sad and lonely; and brings out hidden strength and endurance.

Aromatherapy Massage to Ease Anxiety

Self Help For Anxiety and Ways to Fight Worries and Relax

Stress, worry and frustration can easily lead to anger, if not dealt with immediately; do not let it build up. All negative emotions are unhealthy and must be calmed as soon as possible. What you can do:

Incorporate an aromatherapy oil massage in to your weekly schedule.

Set out 15 minutes every day to meditate and reflect over your purpose in life.

Have an aroma oil bath before bedtime

It may not be always possible to have an aroma oil bath or massage, in such cases, keep a ‘calming mood scent’ in your bag, and sniff at it frequently for a few minutes; it will prevent your stress from spiraling.

Apply a suitable essential oil to your ‘pulse points’ – temples, back of the head, wrists, ankles, and soles of the feet.

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I am a practicing homoeopath, nutritionist, and life style expert. She firmly believes in holistic medicine and the tremendous therapeutic and preventive influence that foods exert in our lives to keep us healthy. Dr. Shweta is also an expert on yoga and effective stress management. As an integrated healer, she has written innumerable articles for various websites and periodicals.